I always feel that way about immigrants. I look at them, and I think, “I know what you went through” in a different way, but in such a similar way. Going Home is about the migrant workers. As you go up through Central California, you see them on each side of you as go up there. I interviewed them, went and saw their homes they were so lovely to me. And it was always that they want to go home. They’re here for the opportunities for their children. They’re here to make money to send home. They’re here, and they come here in difficult ways, the same as in How Many Days to America, where those were boat people who came. They come to look for a better life, and I can absolutely relate to that. And I hope I write it with the feeling I have about it, because I know how hard it is. Harder for them than for me, admittedly; but, still, I understand.
